"My Sistine Chapel"

There probably are no brand new ideas for any of you who are into brain science and metaphor, but it does include many thought-provoking examples, along with teasers from a new book on metaphor that I had been unfamiliar with.

The coolest story for me was that of a man named Bruce Reynolds, who pulled off the heist of $60 million in cash from a train in 1963 without using a gun. He described his act as “my Sistine Chapel.” Suddenly, with that metaphor, we start to think of Reynolds not as a stone-cold criminal but as an artist – a brilliant, eccentric rapscallion rather than a thug. As the post points out, lots of ideas and perceptions get implanted in our heads in this way.

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